Aspiring overseas Canada immigration applicants must avoid submitting fake documents in their visa application. It is a grave criminal offense to lie or submit fake documents to Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada. This is a fraud and it is termed as ‘misrepresentation’.

Submitting fake documents can be in the form of forged or modified documents including:

Passports and journey documents

Visas

Apprenticeship or Trade papers, Degrees, and Diplomas

Certificates of marriage, birth, annulment, final divorce, separation, or death

Police certificates

If Canada immigration applicants offer false information in an application or in an interview with the officer of IRCC, this also is deemed to be fraud. It is also a criminal offense, as quoted by the Canada CA.

Your visa application will be refused by the IRCC if you submit fake documents or data. It could also:

Ban your arrival in Canada for minimum 5 years

Label you a Permanent fraud with its records

Terminate your status as Canada PR holder or citizen

Charge you with committing a crime

Deport you from Canada

IRCC collaborates with its partners to keep a watch on the fake documents and equips its officers to detect the same. Its partners include Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canada Border Services Agency.